Innovation

Bleisure (mixing business trips with leisure) has become the latest trend in the corporate world. For some companies, bleisure trips are completely out of the question, whereas for others, they offer real opportunities (like attracting top talent/increasing employee retention, cutting business costs and reducing the amount of time employees are absent from work). How do you decide whether bleisure is right for your organization?

A Chicago-based group that helps young mothers who are living in poverty is one of 15 nonprofits in the U.S. selected to be finalists in The Atlantic and Allstate's "The Renewal Awards," according to a recent press release.

Big Game Air launched a collaboration business venture with two of its subsidiary companies, Triumph Jets and Next Level Tix, creating a first: a luxury game-day travel experience aimed at corporate and high net worth individuals (HNWI).

The city of Harvey’s financial woes have morphed into a national story line, much of it stemming from an ongoing pension debt crisis that now has the one-time thriving city synonymous with rising levels of budgetary recklessness and political corruption.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao recently recognized Gov. Bruce Rauner and a number of private and public entities that have worked on the $474 million 75th Street Corridor Improvement Project, which is designed to eliminate a multitude of conflict points in the nation’s “worst rail bottleneck in the country," according to a statement from the governor’s office.

A bipartisan bill was recently introduced in the Senate that would loosen some of the restrictions enacted by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, and an Illinois industry group said it thinks the changes would be beneficial.